Game of Thrones (HBO)

JackBurton · 2013-06-02T19:35:31.000Z

joefriendgood:

Yeah…wow. That wasn’t in the book right? I normally watch GOT first and then do a rewatch with my wife later in the week (who is four months pregnant). However, tonight we watched it together. Not good. I remembered she died, but that was not good.

In the book her name is Jeyne Westerling. Not only is she not at the wedding, she is not preggers and alive and well.

GRRM and the producers have discussed his plans for the series so I guess it’s safe to say that she is probably not going to reappear in a future novel.

joefriendgood · 2013-06-02T19:42:20.000Z

Oh…that’s probably why I had no recollection of that.

TheRock · 2013-06-02T19:52:58.000Z

I was reading the first book so I could watch the season 1 again and then was going to do book 2 and season 2 again…they both kind of help me understand all the characters better…BUT, I think I don’t want to get ahead in the books if things like tonight are going to happen…i’d rather not know.

Jag · 2013-06-02T20:05:54.000Z

MythicalMino:

That was a very stressful episode to watch…knowing what was going to happen.

It really was.

Gil102 · 2013-06-02T20:47:22.000Z

Telefrog:

Even for book readers, there was still a surprise.

Red Wedding

Holy shit at the wife’s belly stabbing.

You’re absolutely right about that. I didn’t think it was possible to hate him more than I did after reading the books.

-Gil102

olaf · 2013-06-02T20:54:51.000Z

My wife has not read the books. She wanted to stop watching after Ned bought the farm in S1. Tonight was worse, she started crying as first the wife, then the son, then the mom got killed. The belly stabbing was bad. And I agree that the Dire Wolves have not at all been handled correctly. They are killing machines in the books and in tonight’s episode they looked weak in both the scenes just south of the wall and at the Red Wedding.

Walter_Yarbrough · 2013-06-02T21:45:22.000Z

Well, the Blackfish may still be alive . . .

Alan_Dunkin · 2013-06-02T21:57:02.000Z

https://twitter.com/redweddingtears

— Alan

Incendiary_Lemon · 2013-06-02T22:27:24.000Z

That was hard to watch.

gameoverman · 2013-06-02T22:27:51.000Z

For me, Robb’s mom mentally snapping was a huge part of the impact of that scene…in the book. In the tv show they went for a low key moment. That sucks, if there was ever a time for a real insane freakout, that was it. Having a guy step into frame, slice, then step out was just too truncated I think is the word for it.

Also the wolf was done wrong. A few puny arrows did the job?! The least they could have done is have some big guys come up with massive spears to slice him apart. That’s not even counting that they had him in a kennel!

A couple of things I really liked was the stuff with Hodor and the gang, that guy who plays Jojen is a pretty good actor. He has that mysterious yet trustworthy character thing down pat. I also like the stuff with Arya and the Hound. Jon though, boy could he telegraph his betrayal any more obviously? The guy who played Edmure did great though, I actually felt bad for the guy, then good for him when he scored a relatively nonhideous Frey bride.

Juan_Rayo · 2013-06-02T22:54:36.000Z

Alan Dunkin:

https://twitter.com/redweddingtears

— Alan

Awesome.

JMR · 2013-06-02T23:06:32.000Z

Eh, I don’t use Twitter so can someone explain what that redweddingtears account is doing? Those raging tweets are just from random people that this particular twitter account picks up and re-tweets?

Vesper · 2013-06-02T23:38:51.000Z

Yes…

rowe33 · 2013-06-02T23:43:41.000Z

Holy crap, so painful to watch, especially the Hallmark scene where Catelyn watches Robb & Talisa bond over their future Ned Stark, knowing what was coming up. I thought it was really well done and I imagine non-book readers are going nuts all over the place after this one.

And McElhatton’s Bolton is just so fricking chilling…wow.

Walter_Yarbrough · 2013-06-03T04:07:55.000Z

Alan Dunkin:

https://twitter.com/redweddingtears

I came here to post this. Awesome.

Emos · 2013-06-03T04:26:32.000Z

Wow that ranks right up there with Eddard Starks execution as the most gut wrenching moment of the series. Even knowing that it was coming the RW was still difficult to watch. As a deviation from the book, what happens to Robb’s wife is just…wow.

John_Reynolds · 2013-06-03T04:33:07.000Z

gameoverman:

For me, Robb’s mom mentally snapping was a huge part of the impact of that scene…in the book. In the tv show they went for a low key moment. That sucks, if there was ever a time for a real insane freakout, that was it. Having a guy step into frame, slice, then step out was just too truncated I think is the word for it.

Yep. I wish they would’ve had her clawing her face to ribbons screaming out some of her internal monologue from the book. “Ned, please make it stop, all our babes, our beautiful babes, please, Ned, please.” And when someone grabs her hair to pull her head back, “Not my hair, Ned loved my hair.”

Emos · 2013-06-03T04:34:03.000Z

Trying to remember from the book, does Edmure Tully survive the Red Wedding? What’s his role afterward?

JackBurton · 2013-06-03T04:53:49.000Z

Emos.:

Trying to remember from the book, does Edmure Tully survive the Red Wedding? What’s his role afterward?

Edmure survives. Brynden escapes to Riverrun, The lannisters lay siege. Jaime shows ups, negotiaties a surrender whereby the Tully’s give up Riverrun to the Freys, Edmure becomes a comfortable prisoner with his wife and child at Casterly Rock. At the last minute Brynden swims away and it is currently unknown where he is.

Hugin · 2013-06-03T04:56:10.000Z

John Reynolds:

Yep. I wish they would’ve had her clawing her face to ribbons screaming out some of her internal monologue from the book. “Ned, please make it stop, all our babes, our beautiful babes, please, Ned, please.” And when someone grabs her hair to pull her head back, “Not my hair, Ned loved my hair.”

Frankly, that sounds awful. I’m really glad they didn’t make Michelle Fairley try to sell that without the scene descending into camp.